TigerHawk

TigerHawk (ti*ger*hawk): n. 1. The title of this blog and the nom de plume of its founding blogger; 2. A deep bow to the Princeton Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes; 3. The nickname for Iowa's Hawkeye logo. Posts include thoughts of the day on international affairs, politics, things that strike us as hilarious and personal observations. The opinions we express are our own, and not those of each other, our employers, our relatives, our dead ancestors, or unrelated people of similar ethnicity.

Friday, March 02, 2012

Santorum vs LDS

By Aegon01 at 3/02/2012 02:33:00 AM

An interesting comparison between Rick Santorum and the official LDS stance on issues. Neither are particularly progressive, but LDS usually comes across as less judgemental and sanctimonious. Your mileage may vary, however.

4 Comments:

I tend to be more wary of your posts than those from others here, but I waded into that link...and about halfway through was convinced it's a hatchet job. I stopped reading after that.

As a disclaimer, I am LDS.

I doubt the objectivity of the author. Many of the statements were very similar, yet Santorum's always earned scorn. The last straw was when she disingenuously misquoted Santorum on race. I'm not a Santorum supporter, but the bias shown is indefensible.

I had a long thought going here on whether this site purporting to be a Mormon blog discussion Mormon issues is going well off doctrine, but I've decided to spare you. I'm sure you're not interested, or would read it as me being judgmental. At least they do pull official (often modern) LDS sources for comparison.

But the author/site is clearly biased against socially conservative ideals, while struggling to square that with the stance her church takes.

Well I'm biased against social conservative ideals too, 'cause I think a government that lets me do more things is better than a government that prevents me from doing things an important voting demographic doesn't like. But if the social conservative I'm arguing with is reasonable and can give some decent reasons without quoting scripture every sentence, then I have to give them respect.

But I think the whole point of a blog is to make some argument one way or another in an issue. Yeah, the quotes she had for Santorum were cherry-picked and she was probably looking for the more reasonable quotes from LDS.org to try to reconcile that, like you said. She has an agenda, just like everyone else.